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[[File:Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffanys 887.jpg|link=Breakfast at Tiffany's|frame|Yes, that's really '''''Mickey Rooney''''' under the buck teeth and Hirohito glasses.]]
▲'''Yellowface''' is the practice in cinema, theatre and television where East Asian characters are portrayed by actors of other races while wearing make-up to give them the appearance of an East Asian person, often including epicanthic folds (the skin fold in the inner corner of the eye, a common East Asian feature). In more racist applications, the make-up is stylized with various stereotypical traits.
Sometimes it is used simply out of a reluctance to cast genuine Asian actors. A prominent example was Anna May Wong being passed over for the lead female role of O-Lan in ''[[The Good Earth]]'' in favour of white actress Luise Rainer. The excuse given was that the [[Hays Code]] would have prohibited the film from showing Wong kissing her leading man as "miscegenation", because he was the white actor Paul Muni, despite their both playing Chinese characters.
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* In the ''[[Short Circuit]]'' films, white actor Fisher Stevens has his face darkened to play stereotypical Indian Ben Jabituya.
* In ''The Teahouse of the August Moon'' (1956), Marlon Brando used yellowface makeup (and facial prosthetics) to play the Japanese interpreter, Sakini.
* [[w:Chung Ling Soo|Chung Ling Soo]] (William Ellsworth Robinson, 1861–1918) was an American [[Stage Magician]] who successfully masqueraded as a Chinese conjurer for all of his adult career, to the point that no one with whom he worked knew he was white or spoke English until he was accidentally shot during a bullet-catch illusion and said in perfect English, "Oh my God. Something's happened. Lower the curtain." after falling to the ground.
== In-universe examples (The ''character'' is white but pretends to be Asian) ==
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